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Best Ikea Hack Ever: Starting a Fire

By Lisa Smith - Sep 03, 2010

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Helmut Smit is our new favorite artist/designer, even if FLAMMA was the only project he'd ever done (it isn't, by the way, and they are all stellar). This brilliant Ikea Hack "harks back to one of humanity's basic needs: making fire." As Ikea does not sell matches or lighters, Smits has taken cues from the wartime necessity of burning furniture to keep warm, and created a fire from an Ikea rope, hanger, wine rack, egg cup, napkins, and floral embellishments.

The video above is worth every minute, not to mention a good lesson in building fires, an art lost on most of us.

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Lisa is dedicated to promoting the American contemporary design scene. She keeps herself busy as the co-founder of the Object Design League, an association of independent designers in Chicago, and design practice Smith&Linder, both co-founded with Caroline Linder. She also teaches foundation research studios at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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    No do it while raining or just humid, that is when there is most need of fire :)
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    Vaya, realmente vale la pena verlo cada minuto.
    Felicitaciones
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    Its too expensive, a box of matches. How much?
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    Oh good, let's take some perfectly good consumer products and destroy them and pretend it's a lesson in design.
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    Nice

    He could use some manicure though.
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    It seems everyone needs one.
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    Wow, believe I've seen his stuff before. John Kromeling must have been an influence. (who is considered by those in the know the father of dutch conceptual design)
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